Meeting Date: 09/18/2019
Meeting Type/Theme: Regular Meeting – Theme: Your Favorite Junk Food
Meeting Location: Metropolitan Life Building
Called to Order: 7:00 PM
Presiding Officer: Victor Mattison, President
Officer Reports:
- President –Victor Mattison – No corrections to the meeting minutes from last week. Approved as submitted.
- Rich
- Sarah Xu proposing Open House, Wednesday, October 9th meeting.
- Discussion:
- Jim S. -possibly doing Open House at Holiday Party
- Susan M. –concerns that may be short notice. In past years Open House have been posted in the newspaper to help draw attention
- Vick-Open a motion to have Open House on October 9th, hoping to attract guest that could become members before the new year.
- Motion-Victor
- Second-Rob
- Vote –Majority in favor of having Open House, October 9th.
- Victor and Debbie working to set up a joint
meeting with another Toastmaster Club (TM)
- Missouri Athletic TM club
- There would be two joint meetings, one November 6th
(5:30 meeting) at Missouri Athletic Club Location (Riverfront) and
December 4th at South County Toastmaster location (Met Life)
- More details to come about location etc. Debbie is in charge of logistics and will share schedule soon
- Motion-Debbie
- Second-Matt
- Vote-Majority YES
- Sandy-suggestion to highlight upcoming “Off Days” on weekly agenda
- Victor-Collecting dues for Mike.
- Follow up on Halloween costumes at Met Life
building:
- Costumes are ALLOWED, however NO masks or anything that can be taken as a weapon
- Follow up on Halloween costumes at Met Life
building:
Committee Reports:
- Jim S.- 2/8 meetings for Youth TM completed
- Comments: going very well
Unfinished Business:
- None
New Business:
- Restarting “meeting after the meeting” AKA happy hour or drinks after the TM meetings
- Proposed 1st meeting of the new month
- Starting October (October 2nd, 2019)
Correspondence and Announcements:
- Susan- Tom Terrific still in the hospital
- Susan brought card for everyone to sign
Meeting Roles:
| Toastmaster: Jim Bubash |
| Greeter: Jim Salih |
| Invocator/CLE: Eli Hoxha |
| Grammarian: Victor Mattison-Word of the night: “Pizzazz” |
| Time Keeper: Sean Sheehan |
| Vote Counter: Brent Stewart |
| Ah Counter: Mattheew Clark |
| Camera Operator: Samira Mujdzic |
| Table Topics: Beth Bridwell |
| General Evaluator:George Kiser |
| Joke Master: Jim Salih |
Speakers and Evaluators:
| Speakers | Evaluators | |
| 1 | Debbie Young | Krista Butler |
| 2 | Abdul Aden | Robert Van Winkle |
| 3 | Alan Kirby | Donna Jordan |
| 4 | Sandy Roll | Donald Coupe |
Voting:
| Most Improved: | Abdul Aden |
| Best Table Topics: | Patrick Hunt |
| Best Evaluator: | Robert Van Winkle |
| Best Speaker: | Abdul Aden |
Members Present:
| Aden, Abdul | ☒ | ||
| Brandt, Howard | ☐ | ||
| Bridwell, Beth | ☒ | ||
| Bubash, James | ☒ | ||
| Butler, Krista | ☒ | ||
| Clark, Matt | ☒ | ||
| Collier, Bill | ☐ | ||
| Coupe, Donald | ☒ | ||
| Denton, Kathy | ☐ | ||
| Harr, Jackie | ☒ | ||
| Hartupee, Anne | ☐ | ||
| Hendrickson, Carl | ☐ | ||
| Hoffman, Casey | ☐ | ||
| Hoxha, Eli | ☒ | ||
| Hunt, Patrick | ☒ | ||
| Jordan, Donna | ☒ | ||
| King, Geoff | ☐ | ||
| Kirby, Alan | ☒ | ||
| Kiser, George | ☒ | ||
| Mattison, Victor | ☒ | ||
| McCarty, Mike | ☐ | ||
| McConnell, Susan | ☒ | ||
| Mestdagh, Laurie | ☐ | ||
| Monteiro, Stanley | ☐ | ||
| Mudjzic, Samira | ☒ | ||
| Paul, Jerry | ☐ | ||
| Perper, JD | ☐ | ||
| Pitkin, Sarah | ☐ | ||
| Puskarich, Rich | ☒ | ||
| Roll, Sandy | ☒ | ||
| Salih, Jim | ☒ | ||
| Sheehan, Sean | ☒ | ||
| Shields, Dick | ☐ | ||
| Smelcer, Zach | ☒ | ||
| Spencer, Mary K | ☐ | ||
| Spurgeon, Jeannie | ☐ | ||
| Stewart, Brent | ☒ | ||
| Terrific, Tom | ☐ | ||
| VanWinkle, Robert | ☒ | ||
| Winheim, Steve | ☐ | ||
| Xu, Sarah | ☐ | ||
| Young, Debbie | ☒ | ||
Meeting Rating: 7.4/10
Meeting Adjourned: 9:00 pm
Attendance: 23/ 42 members in attendance. – 54% attendance
Visitors: Billal
Submitted by Eli Hoxha, Secretary
